“Much like when corporations refer to layoffs as ‘rightsizing’ or impending bankruptcy as a ‘pivot,’ all the euphemisms probably don’t mean much to the people who lost their paychecks today,” Bennett writes.

Some networks (and Fox, too, in a couple instances) have taken to calling the closure of thousands of museums, parks, government offices, monuments, infant nutrition programs, college loan offices and the layoff of 800,000 workers a “partial shutdown.” Exhibit B: